[SET]
name: Specially Defensive
move 1: Stealth Rock / Spikes
move 2: Precipice Blades
move 3: Rock Tomb / Overheat
move 4: Toxic / Roar
item: Red Orb
ability: Drought
nature: Relaxed / Careful / Sassy
evs: 248 HP / 56 Def / 204 SpD
[SET COMMENTS]
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name: Specially Defensive
move 1: Stealth Rock / Spikes
move 2: Precipice Blades
move 3: Rock Tomb / Overheat
move 4: Toxic / Roar
item: Red Orb
ability: Drought
nature: Relaxed / Careful / Sassy
evs: 248 HP / 56 Def / 204 SpD
[SET COMMENTS]
- Primal Groudon is among the best support Pokemon in National Dex Ubers thanks to its great typing, impressive base stats, wide movepool, and incredible ability in Desolate Land.
- Stealth Rock provides chip damage to many staples of the tier like Arceus-Fairy, Primal Kyogre, and opposing Primal Groudon. Spikes is an option that deals more damage to Rock-resistant foes, like Arceus-Ground and Zygarde.
- Precipice Blade 2HKOes neutral targets like offensive variants of Xerneas and Primal Kyogre, and it has a solid chance to OHKO Eternatus as well as a small chance to OHKO opposing offensive Primal Groudon after one layer of Spikes.
- Rock Tomb hits Ho-Oh and Yveltal for super effective damage and is a great tool to cripple Speed-boosting foes like Mega Salamence, Ultra Necrozma, and Scale Shot and Dragon Dance Zygarde. Overheat is an option that hits neutral and Fire-weak targets like Arceus-Ground, Tera Grass Ho-Oh, and Ferrothorn for heavy damage.
- Toxic cripples common switch-ins to Primal Groudon such as Arceus-Ground, Zygarde, and Arceus-Dark and puts them on a timer. Roar can be used instead to phaze setup sweepers that would try to use Primal Groudon as setup fodder, like Dragon Dance and Calm Mind Arceus-Ground, Dragon Dance and trapper Zygarde, and Mega Salamence. If entry hazards are up, it can also be used to rack up damage against the opposing team.
- The given EV spread lets Primal Groudon survive two Low Kick from Choice Band Marshadow as well as a +2 Earthquake from Adamant Necrozma-DM. A Careful nature can be run for more safety against Xerneas while also surviving two Modest Dynamax Cannon from Eternatus. A Sassy nature can be used for the same role if it's using Overheat, and it still outruns uninvested Necrozma-DM.
- This set fits best on bulky offensive teams that need a solid entry hazard setter that is not passive against common Defoggers like Ho-Oh and Yveltal.
- As it has no form of recovery, Primal Groudon can struggle taking care of Geomancy Xerneas. Thus, a secondary phazer like Ho-Oh works well with it. Tera Grass Ho-Oh can also help Primal Groudon to deal with Primal Kyogre, which can be somewhat tricky for Primal Groudon to handle alone. Most of the time, trading HP against the opposing Primal Groudon is not wanted, so solid answers to it like Zygarde and Giratina-O are welcome additions. Good answers to Arceus-Ground are also recommended, such as defensive Primal Kyogre and the aforementioned Ho-Oh.
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